[Correspondence] Deploying RDTs in the DRC Ebola outbreak

June 29, 2018

The Lancet 391, 10139 (2018)

Author: Ranu S Dhillon, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, J Daniel Kelly

Uncovering unknown transmission chains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is an emergent priority. During the early stages of the 2013–16 west African Ebola epidemic, we thought we had a grip on transmission only to discover that unknown transmission chains were spreading unchecked, ultimately enabling the epidemic to spiral out of control.